“I had one criticism to make of my teachers. I had heard a few of them say, “Oh, I’m just a teacher.” This burned me up. I told my teachers to never say this. I told them to walk proudly, with their heads held high, and to thank God they had chosen the teaching profession – the mother of all professions; that they were members working in the front line of American democracy. that they were the ground roots and not the brace roots of American democracy.”
